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The episode discusses how holding a certain moral high ground narrative can be a significant threat to those in power who are trying to maintain their position. It implies that the truth can be unsettling for those attempting to assert leadership in the moral domain globally.

In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies.

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Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathematical tools and techniques of financial risk management. Too often, though, we fail to address the greatest risk—the peril posed by our own behavior. Jon Danielsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities, and prejudices.

A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestselling author of The Limits of Power. When the Cold War ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Washington establishment felt it had prevailed in a...

Middle East Illusions explores the complex geopolitics, conflicts, and stories shaping the Middle East and West Asia — with in-depth analysis, balanced insights, and updates you can trust.

In The Progress Illusion, Jon D. Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his own experience as a young economist inoculated in the 1980s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how pseudoscience came to dominate economic thought. He pokes holes in the conventional wisdom of neo-classical economics, illustrating how flawed theories about financial decision-making and maximizing efficiency ignore human psychology and morality.

Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious technological development. Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel refute this idea, bringing together a vast array of data and case studies to tell a very different story. With expertise spanning academia and the business world, Erixon and Weigel illustrate how innovation is being hampered by existing government regulations and corporate practices.

Putins Krieg hat alle bislang als unumstößlich geltenden Grundannahmen unserer Beziehungen zu Russland zunichte gemacht. Wie ist mit einer geopolitischen Macht auf dem europäischen Kontinent umzugehen, deren DNA darauf ausgerichtet ist, mit kriegsverbrecherischer Gewalt bestehende Staatsgrenzen zu verändern? Zu dieser fundamentalen Herausforderung für die Zukunft Europas und möglichen Lösungen schweigen die deutschen Parteien auffallend laut.

In the current age of Post Truth, the need for discernment is vital in knowing what to believe. The way information is presented is almost always filtered or customized to benefit or harm, not to achieve accuracy. Because of this swirling doubt and uncertainty, you are invited to listen to Information Illusion and discern for yourself.

Wokeness ist ein Kampfbegriff geworden. Das gilt sowohl für die Befürworter wie die Gegner einer Einstellung, die sich selbst als "wach" oder "aufmerksam" bezeichnet. Es gibt wenig sachlich begründete Auseinandersetzungen, dafür umso mehr Empörung. In diesem Buch werden zentrale Elemente von Wokeness kritisch geprüft: der Vorwurf der kulturellen Aneignung, die Forderung nach geschlechtergerechter Sprache, die Rede von strukturellem Rassismus, das Instrument der Cancel Culture und die Einführung einer geschlechtlichen Diversität.

Carlo Masala warnt in diesem Hörbuch vor den Illusionen des Westens: der Illusion, die Globalisierung würde automatisch zur Verbreitung der Demokratie führen, der Illusion einer zunehmenden Verrechtlichung der internationalen Beziehungen, aber auch der Illusion, durch militärische Interventionen ließen sich Demokratie und Stabilität exportieren. Seit der Niederlage in Afghanistan und Putins Krieg gegen die Ukraine stehen die Grundlagen westlicher Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik auf dem Prüfstand.

Der Podcast zu Klima & Natur für alle, die Teil der Lösung sein möchten. Pragmatische Vorschläge, kreative Ideen und schlaue Köpfe im Kampf gegen Klimakrise und Artensterben.

The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young...

"Dispelling the Illusion behind Stock Buybacks" is from the August 14, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Gretchen Morgenson and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Practically every life on Earth is affected by an ancient sect whose members plotted to manipulate and control the course of world history just as they are doing today. They affect all levels of society from lawmakers and enforcers, to religious and political leaders, to moviemakers and media moguls, as well as industrial and pharmaceutical giants. Through skillful manipulation they control the world, but they aren't the politicians you're thinking of. They are the Illuminati.

The middle class is over. It was a lie. We have the 1%...and then everyone else. Does this explain your life? My middle class life was actually working class. My problem is that it's taken me years to learn the difference.Your host Frank Simon has 40 years of work experience from white collar to blue collar, in the public sector, private sector, GIG worker, and business owner.Perspective from someone having lived in all three provinces of Western Canada, and what makes us different.